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Top 5 UK Hotel Spas, Overseas Hotel Spas, and Overseas Destinations Spas
from Condé Nast Traveller's 2000 Readers' Travel Awards
Dateline: 10/07/00

October's Condé Nast Traveller (the UK version) provides the results this year's survey of the top 100 hotels, islands, holiday destinations, car rental companies, cruise lines, Spas, cities, tour operators, airlines, and airports. Reader's Travel Awards questionnaires were inserted in copies of the May 2000 issue of Conde Nast Traveller distributed in the UK which generated answers to produce the third annual "Best of the Best" List. Criteria by which the spas were judged are listed below:

  • Location
  • Ambience/Decor
  • Service/Staff
  • Standard/Comfort of Accommodations
  • Range of Treatments
  • Food/Restaurants
  • Facilities/Equipment
  • Value for Money
  • Environmental Friendliness

Here's how they ranked. Note the names are linked to the spa's or spa resort's web site so you can take a virtual visit.

UK 
Hotel Spas

Overseas
 Hotel Spas 

Overseas Destinations Spas

1. Chewton Glen
    New Milton, Hampshire

top marks for: 
location
ambience/decor
service/staff
standard/comfort of accommodation
range of treatments
food/restaurants
facilities/equipment

2. Bodysgallen Hall
    Llandudno

3. Bath Spa Hotel
    Bath 

top marks for:
value for money

4. Turnberry Hotel and Spa
    Ayrshire 

5. Hartwell House
    Aylesbury

top marks for:
environmental friendliness

5. Stobo Castle 
    Peebleshire

 1. Four Seasons Resort at Sayan
    Bali 

top marks for:
ambiance/decor
environmental friendliness
service/staff
standard/comfort of accomodations)

2. The Datai
     Langkawi, Malasia

top marks for:
value for money
facilities/equipment

3. Le Saint Geran
    Mauritius

top marks for: 
range of treatments
food/restaurants
location

4. Banyan Tree
    Phuket, Thailand 

5. Nusa Dua Beach Hotel  
    Bali

top marks for:
facilities/equipment

 1. Chiva-Som International Health Resort
    Hua Hin, Thailand 

top marks for: 
food/restaurants
ambience/decor
standard/comfort of accommodation

2. Banff Springs Hotel
    Alberta, Canada

top marks for:
value for money
service/staff

3. Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires
    Lenox, Massachusetts

top marks for:
range of treatments

4. Le Sport
    St. Lucia

5. Amankila
    Bali

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